Search and social media news: weekly round-up 26th August 2011 In this week’s round-up: Foursquare reigns supreme, Twitter agrees to meet the government over social media rioting and Man U get to the top of the social media league. Facebook checks out of Places feature Facebook has lost the geosocial networking battle to Foursquare. The [...]
The latest search and social media news for the week ending 19th August 2011. Bing tops Google for site referrals First up is the surprising news that Bing search has just beaten Google for what you want to see in your search results. New data from Experian Hitwise for July 2011 shows that Bing and [...]
Facebook is a social media site and Google is, predominantly, a search engine. Right? Well things are changing, or at least Facebook is trying to change them. The latest Hitwise figures show that in the UK, Facebook dominates the social media landscape with 50% of site visits recorded, with Google searches accounting for 91% of [...]
Cameron comments on social media controls In this new weekly series of social media news roundups, we’ll usually summarise a handful of developments in this space. This weeks story, however, is so significant it needs an article all to itself. We’re talking, of course, about the government’s discussions about cracking down on social media sites [...]
Like many in London and across the rest of the country I have been watching TV, listening and reading conversations across twitter, facebook and several other social media channels with a combination of amazement, anger, frustration and disgust. This has not just been about finding out about what is and has happened but how social [...]
